Your weekly realignment speculation (update)

Update: Finally got a call back from a fairly solid source who said the chatter is pretty strong that North Texas and Florida International are virtual locks for Conference USA, with Louisiana Tech coming in behind them. Any more additions than that, UTSA will have a solid shot. Anything less, almost none.

So, in other words, nothing new there.

Regarding a timeline, the same source said that we might not get a resolution until after C-USA holds its annual meeting several weeks from now in Florida.

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Nothing new to report, other than UTSA administration being put on double-secret probation media lockdown for the past couple of weeks. Indeed, if Lynn Hickey wasn’t so polite, I get the sense she’d sprint in the other direction every time she sees me coming.

Can’t pin this on anything specific, but I’m getting the idea that UTSA remains cautiously optimistic about its chances of joining whatever you want to call the impending affiliation between the Mountain West and Conference USA. So my sense is, the Roadrunners:

* are still being considered

* are still a second-tier candidate

* still have no clue what’s going to happen

Nothing new from any of my sources in either league or the Sun Belt. Said one: the situation remain “very fluid,” which I take to mean that nothing definitive has been decided in terms of additions.

We’re probably getting fairly close to some sort of resolution, perhaps as soon as next week. Something to keep an eye on: the athletic directors from the Mountain West and Western Athletic Conference will hold their annual meetings next week. Perhaps the last round of discussions? No clue, but I’d definitely love to be a fly on the wall in some of those rooms.